It seems like only yesterday, but it is in fact 51 years since this next video was recorded. On 19 June 1974 we all participated in the recording of a guided tour of the college TV studio to show to freshers the following October. This is the end sequence of the recording where Desmond King spoke with three STOIC members who played the role of producers for the news-magazine programme called TOPIC. Keith Arundel, Robin Barry and Bill Lovell were the lucky three to have been immortalised in the archive recording.
Desmond had an interesting career after leaving Imperial and ultimately became the CEO of Caltex and later President (CTV) of Chevron. Robin already had an interesting connection to TV because his father was Christopher Barry (1925-2014) a well-known TV Director including programmes such as Doctor Who. We visited him at the BBC Television Centre when he was directing the short-lived series called ‘Moonbase 3’.
Colin Grimshaw February 2026